Okay, so I am sure I will step on toes, but this woman did something that was the last straw. I read this little piece, via Think Progress, this morning. If this is compassionate conservatism at work, I can do without it:

He could come back without arms, legs or eyeballs, and you’re (whining)?” Schlessinger asked before taking the stage at the base theater to host her daily program on ethics, morals and values. “You’re not dodging bullets, so I don’t want to hear any whining — that’s my message to them.”

Oh, but it gets better. See Dr Laura has a son in the army overseas and complained to congress about his assignment.

Schlessinger, whose son Deryk is in the Army, railed against Congress, saying that her son’s tour of duty overseas — she declined to say where he is stationed, noting that would put him at risk “like Prince Harry” — had been extended because of recent arguments over war funding.

Prince Harry??? Does anyone even know what her son LOOKS like. Good Lord. What a moron. Let me adress the comments about military wives first. Of course, I do not have to go through what these women, and I should say spouses, are. They are going through a third possibly fourth deployment. This is UNHEARD of in the military. This did not happen in Vietnam or Korea. Not this widespread. And the fact that there seems to be NO reason to be there, that the Iraqi government has released a statement saying they want us to leave, and our young men and women are still dying, well, that doesn’t seem to sit well with the spouses at home for some reason. I could go on about a rant about the war, because most of you know my position, but I won’t. I am sick of nasty emails, and I am sure I will get a slew of them from this rant, and I am on my first cup of coffee. Also, this isn’t about the war so much as the respect spouses deserve for what they do on the homefront.

This attitude just pisses me off. Listen up any military spouse out there. You have a right to your feelings, you have a right to gripe, you have a right to whine and you have the right to tell people like Dr Laura to Go F herself. Go ahead, you might feel better.

No matter what you think about the war, you have to hand it to military spouses. We often get little to no support these days. In my case, if Les were to deploy, he would not go as part of a unit, he would be taking a position somewhere over there. When he was deployed last time, 128 days, I got two calls from his squadron. One was from his new commander who thought I lived on base and there was a fire near the base. The other was from someone who wanted to know what my husband liked as snacks. Neither of them asked after me or my three year old. Not once. I had no support. I had family support, that is true. I am blessed with parents who will pick up their lives at the drop of a hat to come help like they did when I went in the hospital. BUT, many spouses do not. And they go ignored because of spending cutbacks. There is support from military families, but many of them are in the same boat, and dammit they are tired.

No, we don’t dodge bullets, but we handle everything else. We always have at least one thing break down, if not several while they are gone, and we have to answer the questions like, “Why isn’t Daddy here for my birthday?” and “When will he be home?” We handle the bills, deal with any problems with the kids, and we do it without very little support. Just maybe, you get the joy of calling your husband to tell him that the woman he thought of as his second mother has passed way, like I did in ‘98. And we often cannot tell the active duty spouse everything that is going on because he or she is in the field dealing with things that are far more dangerous. If we get in a group and bitch, well, I think we have that freaking right. And guess what? Everyone keeps telling us they are fighting for our freedoms and one of those is our freedom of speech.

So, no, they are not dodging physical bullets. But having to deal with that year after year, when the mission is already accomplished, and there seems to be no real objective, well, damn, it is understandable there is some whining. Hell, I think there should be some SCREAMING.

Now, I must address Dr. Laura’s delusions of grandeur. Hey, Dr. Laura, are you on crack? Sort of like when you got those naked pictures taken? For a woman who says suck it up to people, it is amazing when you are asked to suck it up you go crying to congress. First of all, your son is NOT well known. Hell, I can’t find a picture of him. Of course, Prince Harry(who is getting to be much better looking than his brother IMHO, but that is not really important) has been splashed across the tabloids since birth. Your son, not so much. Oh, and he is THIRD IN LINE to a MONARCHY. Again, your son, not to much.

Secondly, why are you allowed to whine but not spouses? Because you are his mommy? Christ in a miniskirt, woman. As his MOMMY you went to congress. He will NEVER live that down. The other men and women in the unit are going to razz him for months over that one, it is their duty to do it. I can only imagine what life is like for any woman in his life. If there is one at the moment. Good Lord she deserves a medal.

So, here is my “Dr. Laura” advice. Suck it up, mommy. Your son signed up, and you are stuck, just like every mother who has a son or daughter over there. Want to whine, well, HELL, you aren’t going to come home missing an arm or a leg. You aren’t dodging bullets. Stopping being a whiney little brat who only cares about herself.

My rant is over–for now.

Oh and any nasty, flaming comments will be deleted. My blog, my rules.